Of somebody bracing for a fight. Maybe even spoiling for one. Frye lifts her eyes. She's looking.

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Stupid. What she did and what she would not do were conscious deci­sions to accept or reject not the products of either upbring­ing or lack of understanding. She manipulated that sailor as coldly as if he were a puppet . . . And with a coldness he'd never felt inside her before not really. It was almost as if . . . as if she were two creatures both Terry the human and something else. That something else the coldness had the power and made the rules but in exchange it protected her against everything from the elements to sailors with guns and so long as she followed its rules then it was the passenger emerging only as needed. Its control over her was not absolute; she Terry had overruled it and opted for his plea for mercy for the man over the other's computerlike direct and deadly course. Not parasitism then but symbiosis of some sort. Terry had not been infected; rather she had made a bargain and now had to live with the.
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